Boring But Useful Post: Printing to BYU Printers from Linux

BYU uses the Pharos print system around campus. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be direct Linux support for Pharos. But linuxers are in luck, because it is still possible to print to the campus printers.

On Ubuntu 9.10 I did the following:

Opened http://localhost:631/ in Firefox (not Chrome—this didn’t work for some reason)

Clicked “Adding Printers and Classes”

Clicked “Add Printer”

Entered my regular username and password when prompted

On the “Add Printer” page, selected “LPD/LPR Host or Printer” and clicked “Continue”